Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week hundreds of Europeans marched to Nazi execution because they dared to revolt against the New Order. Some were young, as heroes are supposed to be. Some were not. Plump men of middle years sprawled on their blindfolded faces in front of bullet-pocked walls. Worn grey bodies hung by their corded necks in public squares...
...Nazis admitted executing 1,000 in the past few weeks of European revolt. The number was probably a gross understatement...
...violent was the Yugoslav revolt that the Nazis were reported sending a whole panzer division of 12,000 men toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...
...from the pens of countless critics who have assigned the cliches of sentimental romanticism to deadest limbo, not a year of the new age passes without a half-dozen revivals of the old. And if Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince" provides any indication, it is that the modernistic revolt has left a lot of theatre-going Bourbons around...
...second week of Prohibition (aqua variety) began in South Hadley yesterday, rumors of revolt against the totalitarians anti-bathing edict of President Roswell G. Ham seeped into the outside world...